While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain,
ABERJHANIHow hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?
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Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.
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The best of humanity’s recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
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The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various ‘individuals’, or groups of ‘individuals’
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The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope – that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
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The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
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The word ‘survivor’ carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women.
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They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality.
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The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.
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As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.
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The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
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All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.
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To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called “destiny” to maintain grief and horror in the world?
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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The singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
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Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence
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Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.
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The definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.
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Until the past ten years, many defined the period primarily by its well-known literary, musical, and artistic elements while overlooking the fact there was any political component to it at all.
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Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire
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Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
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Terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
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To create art with all the passion in one’s soul is to live art with all the beauty in one’s heart.
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Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.
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